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- Jeff Young
- We live in university housing near Madison. These temporary huts have quartered the troops as they trained before shipping out. Now they provide lodging for students and faculty until the school erects permanent structures. Of course, city planners have not had much to say about my fenceless backyard. It features a four-lane major arterial. I am three. I have a tricycle. Have trike will travel... Mom recognizes this propensity. Since my being cooped up inside all day with my year-old sister is not a pleasant experience for any of us, she fashions a harness and leash. I range out to the maximum of 20 feet and contemplate the ebb and flow of traffic just beyond my reach. Soon a big boy (he’s five) notices my predicament and saunters over. A conversation ensues. I sure wish I could get the perspective of the traffic flow from the other side, I tell him. Bummer, he says. We continue to inspect the throng. Damn, I exclaim, if only I weren’t tied up so. That’s the essence of it, anyway. Well, my new friend boasts, I could always get my mother’s scissors. Moments later, I bask in the aura of rush-hour traffic and gaze across the frenzied lanes at that other world, my backyard.
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So. What do you think of my book cover?
Now that the project is live, feel free to pour through all 580 plus pages and provide some feedback. Order info at: http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=55347
You may not remember me and the Dayton contingent from SCOR camp 07), but ask Elaine and she may be able to refresh your memory. In any case, she passed out the "word" and I got your book. Having met you, enjoyed your shirtless partying capacity and heard about 2AM conversations, the book served to provide useful background. At times, I am bemused as I try to figure out how jets really fly, but you obviously were into "Extreme Sports" before they existed. I have pages to go on the journey yet, but I am definitely engaged. Also am amazed at the "currency" of this book as your footnotes refer to .html. Life is changing.
CONGRATS! One down, two to go. (hee, hee!)
Carol Suddath, cello
Hey Carol. Not remember you?
NOT.
(double neg there, for the uninitiated)
Actually, I do not remember you from SCOR 07.
Hope you both enjoy and receive stuff from LLO. I'd love to get your take on it either as you read it, or when you finish. Elaine will give you my e-mail address. Then, if you choose, you can also fill me in on whadsup.
(We met at SCOR 06, heh heh. I know... us bass players all look alike.)
Jeff, You have the unusual ability to wield- with scintillating brilliance- the resources of wit and life experienced fully.
With good humor and compelling story telling, this reader enjoyed the best and the worst (of times) as it ambitiously melded and merged for quite the ride, giving this reader new perspective to claim the Present with celebration. Thank you!
Thx. Enclosed is the promised c-note. ;)
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